Window-blind guard.



'No. 838,356. PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

L. D. RICHARDSON. WINDOW BLIND GUARD.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 18 1906 m mm m r 2 1w 0 Z WITNE S ATTO EYS LOUIS DEXTER RICHARDSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHQDE ISLAND.

WINDOW-BLIND GUARD- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed May 18, 1906. Serial No. 317,469.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUrs DEXTER Rron- ARDSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved WVindow-Blind Guard, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an attachment for window-blinds.

The object of the invention is to produce a device of simple form which may be applied to a shutter in order to prevent the same from being dislodged by the wind or by other cause.

The invention consists in the form and construction of the device to be described more fully hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective showing a portion of a window-blind and the adjacent windowcasement and representing my device as ap plied to the blind. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the lower portion of the blind at this point and further illustrating the manner in which the device is applied, and Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the device itself.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the blind or shutter, which blind is supposed to be of common form and mounted, by means of a hinge-plate 2, upon ahanger 8, the said hanger comprising a tang 4, which is adapted to be driven into the wall of the building or window-casement, and further comprising an upwardly-projecting pintle 5, which receives the eye or sleeve 6 of the hingeleaf 2. As indicated most clearly in Fig. 2, the hinge-leaf at the eye or sleeve 6 projects a considerable distance beyond the rear edge 7 of the blind. Between the sleeve 6 and the rear edge 7 of the blind I apply my device 8. The form of this device is most clearly shown in Fig. 1. It is preferably formed of a stout piece of wire, the body 9 whereof lies on the outer face of the leaf 2 adjacent to the sleeve 6. The upper portion of the body 9 is formed into a hook 10, which projects down, as indicated, enabling the device to be hung upon the upper edge of the leaf, as shown. The body 9 of the guard extends downwardly to a point below the under side of the hanger 3, at which point it is formed with a laterally-projecting finger or dog 1 1, which lies adjacent to the under face of the hanger, as shown most clearly in Fig.

I/Vith the device applied as shown it is evident that the shutter or blind cannot be raised in such a way as to remove it from the pintle 5. The guard, however, does not interfere in any way with the opening or closing of the shutter, as it simply moves with the hinge-leaf 2, as will be readily understood, so that the finger 11 always projects under the hanger.

In practice the guards will be made righthanded and left-handed, the difference lying simply in the direction in which the dog 11 projects from the body of the guard. In either case it should be disposed in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane passing through the hook and body of the guard.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A device of the class described, having a body with a hook formed at one extremity thereof, and a laterally-projecting dog formed at the other extremity thereof, said dog being disposed in a plane substantially at right angles to said hook.

2. In combination, a hinge-leaf having a sleeve formed at one extremity thereof, a hanger having an upwardly-projecting pintle adapted to receive said sleeve, and aremovable guard adapted to be applied to said hingeleaf adjacent to said sleeve and having a projection lying adjacent to the under face of said hanger, whereby said guard affords means for preventing an upward movement of said sleeve.

3. In combination, a hinge-leaf having a sleeve, a hanger having an upwardly-projecting pintle adapted to receive said sleeve, and a guard having a hook adapted to be hung over the edge of said leaf adjacent to said sleeve, said hanger having a dog projecting laterally therefrom and lying under said hanger, said guard operating to prevent an upward movement of said sleeve.

4. In combination, a hanger adapted to project outwardly from a wall and having an upwardly-projecting pintle, a blind having a hinge-leaf attached thereto and projecting therefrom, said hinge-leaf having a sleeve In testimony whereof I have signed my formed thereupon, adapted to receive said name to this specification in the presence of pintle, and a guard adapted to be hung upon two subscribing Witnesses.

said hinge-leaf adjacent to the edge of said I blind, said guard having a projection eXtend- WVitnesses: ing under said hanger to lock said blind STEPHEN I. PEoK, against an upward movement. WILLIAM G. BRENNEN.

LOUIS DEXTER RICHARDSON. 

